[lore] Draft of the next edition

[Grahame Bowland]

On 16/08/06, David Basden <davidb-6502 at rcpt.to> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 02:57:36PM +0800, Grahame Bowland wrote:
> > >        - If you're using Microsoft Publisher, please don't, otherwise,
> > >        it's easy to get a few of the pages to look better
> >
> > I'm actually using Apple's Pages, which seems quite sensible. However,
> > I have very little experience using it, having only bought it
> > yesterday.
>
> Cool. Is it any good? My main point was that Publisher doesn't actually let you have
> very much control. Less than Word even *fear*.

It gives you a fair bit of control, yes. As I didn't read any
documentation and just started using it there are a few kinks in my
document. I've set most things to be free floating and wrapping; this
means that moving anything around (rightly) takes ages as it has to
iteratively nudge everything else. I know understand how I should have
done it, but I can't be bothered going back and fixing it when it
looks okay right now :-)

It was easy to turn off hyphenation document-wide (and turn it back on
for a paragraph, etc, etc) and there are lots of things to twiddle. UI
like it looks quite a bit like Publisher, but only in that it looks
like pretty much any desktop publishing software. Seems to be vaguely
sensible, though you wouldn't use it for anything big. Quark or
Framemaker are still the champions, aren't they?

Anyway, updated a bit and I'm about to head down to UCC if anyone
wants to hang and fiddle with it:
  http://grahame.angrygoats.net/Lore.pdf

Jen is writing a column on WoW at UCC, and I'm waiting on Zanchey to
give me his President's Rant for it. Once I have those two, I'll head
down to the Photocopy shop and print it. I'm thinking A4,
double-sided, and stabled at the top left - it'll give it a nice
folksy feel :-)